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Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

far. has been productive of more pro-
family than anything else. No notice
of the change of entrance to the creek
has been given, and, as the old chan.
mel has filed up since the current runs
elsewhere, that also causes unlimited
profanity.
The result will probably be to give
water tor light draught vessels to an
insignificant town and to destroy en-
tirely the prettiest stretch OF beach on
the Delaware shore of the bay. l
must tell you about the mosquitoes.
The natives say these little pests have
never been so numerous. They are
little but big. The common netting is
of no use whatever. They go through
single thickness without difficulty
and double thick simply gives them
exercise for the work which they at
once enter. Unc day last week little
boy was stung to death by mosquitoes,
about three miles west of Bowers
Mr., Samuel Roslin who owns farm
at the place indicated, sent his little
son to drive the cows home. Iht
cows came, but the boy did not. The
next day the little fellow was founG
dead In the meadow where the cattle
had been pasturing. His body wa
completely covered by great blotches
caused by bites of the insects, and hl
nostrils and mouth were filled Will
the insects. This is the first instanc'
of death from mosquito bites in tn
lower section of Delaware. Furthe
evidence of the terrors of mosquitoes
was given by old-time Philadelphians
Ex-Special Officer w G. Farnsworth
who up to eighteen months ago wa
! Coroner Powers officer, and who di
! some excellent detective work, has
farm near Viola, a small hamlet, 81
miles from Bowers Beach. l ws
glad to meet him. he told me that b
and his family were unable to leay
their house for three days of last weel
; He was the only one to go out, an
t then only to feed the cattle. Farm
G worth Just now is taking weeks "
} cation in his yacht, and is slaughte
/. ing the weakfish off Kits Hammot
e in great torn. lie caught a man.ea
!. er shark sixteen feet long on Wednt
4 day. and wanted to ship it to "Ton
g Powers as a token of his esteem. III
p farm upon which Counselor james
t Heverin was borh and raised al
It which he now owns is within sight
e the mouth of Jones' creek. His far
is directly on the banks of the streal
o so the appropriation may do scme 20
d beside to Doverites, after all.
d am glad l TOOK in Big Thursd
/. at Bowers Beach BYSTANDER
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
DR.. ]. MlIIER'8
VEGETABLE
EXPECT0RAN

This InvaIuable Medicine 10 20.
knowiedged BY the thousands 70 DO Tne
Rest Cough Medicfne In tho world.
For Coughs, Oolds, Sore Throat, Hoarseness,
Inflammation Of tho Threat and Mouth.
Whooping Cough, Oanker, hash, &C., there
is no medicine now In use that has performed
more cures.
Il is warranted not TO contain any min
erai substa noe; 1t ts also FREQ from iaudsnum
or SOU ills; It may be taken at any time with
perfect safety. Sold BY all druggtsts: Ssc
and 81 . bottle. e MORO AN d BONb,
Prop, Providence, Il.
Dr. Haynes' Arabian Balsam is un'
cquaied ior oIou,. Try IL. 2bc. and 81. az
Druggists marleowom
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
Ea.es to Penna. state Fair.

The thicty.thira annual exhibition oi
the Pennsylvania state Aaricultura.
Soc,etv will be held st tina fair grounds,
near Germ mnntown JUNCTION. Philads'.
phis, September 9TH to 18th, incinsive
The premium list aagrssates $3o 0o0
and tbis with the magnificent facilities
offered by the new grounds will insure
a fine display.
The Peap-ylvania Railroad Company
will sell excursion tickets to the fail
grounds from I'LL st,tions on its mair
line ard branches. sep enoer 5th II
18th, good to return until 10th, ut re
duced rates.
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
A Now BAss Bait.

A distinguished gentleman residing
in Harrisburg sends us the following
and asks that it be dedicated to our
townsman John +. Ingram: 81 have
discovered sure bait for bass" said
an old fisherman to Reading Herald
reporter yesterday, "but mind you,
don't put this in the paper. 1t is
snakes tails. Everybody has OBJ
served that the tail OF snake don't die
until sundown, but keeps wriggling
all day after the rest of the snake has
climbed the golden stairs. Now bass,
above all fish, want lively bait, The
idea struck me one day when l was
fishing along Limerick dam. A freshly
killed snake was lying in the woods
along the tow path, while its tail was
keeping up lively agitation.
took my knife, cut the tail OF, pu'
it on the hook and threw out abou'
thirty feet from the shore. l NO soon
er frightened up my line than had
vigorous bite, and in five seconds
was pulling away on a three-pounder
In half an hour l had landed eigh
bass, averaging two pounds each. Th'
ninth one got away with the bait ane
my fun ceased. tried other bait bu
got only one fish in the next fou
hours. then started out to hun
snakes. l found one after an hours
search, cut off his tail, and it laste
me for five bass, which 1 pulled IN In
side of twenty minutes; but had
fine basket full and was ready to qui
Since then have couple of coun
try boys in my employ who cate
alive and bring to me all the snake
they see, and now have no trouble i
/ getting all the bass want every tim
/ | 20 fishing. At first l killed IL
J snakes and then cut off their tails, bl
then made an important discover
3 which will enable me to fish all sum
. mer with a dozen snakes. toun
t that by cutting oil the tail while IL
, snake was living and putting a lit
D cosmoline on the wound 1t not on
8 heale' !, but that in about three week
: time the snake would grow an entire
new tail just as lively as the old on
But mind, don't put this IN the pape
a If you do, snakes will soon be as scar
, around here as they are in lrelan
! and by the time the season is ov
s here will be no bass left. :"
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
PUBLIC SALE
200 BUILDING LOTS,
ON INsTALLMENTs,
ATURDA Az, AUGUST 27

At $50 O'clock in the Twelfth Ward Second Third
Fourth Fifth Sixth and Webb Streets Green HILL Gray and
Cleveland
These lots all in fine high, healthy locality, in
been established the city railway will doubt be
extended in short time new school will be erected
streets opened and graded These improvements will necessarily
improve the adjacent lots
1t repeating the advantages offered People who
any foresight for themselves by walking out in this
vicinity the improvements being made 1t may appear
little distance walk but bear in mind buy lots the
lefty those prices the offered 1t probable that
|hs is the last sale may have on instalments.
AS matter of course, will only sell certain number OF
lots; when that done will sell those terms
Taxes lot assessed at $780, 81 cents East Of
Union lot assessed at $50 the tax S25 house
west of Union $1,000 s212 of Union
ST. and remember oee lot house east of Union
street would be assessed higher.
To persons desiring there other such oppor
uny the profits always than double the interest that
get in the savings bank and often ten times more You ~ can
country find better place to invest their money tor while
hey working at home other persons building adjacent to
their lots making money for them.
To those who home and paying rent buya
and when paid for if have shares in the loan you can
build nice, fine house for $1,000
The payment shares per month interest on $1,000 S.
lpe month"; making per MONTH You pay nearly that much
flor rent Now month you make payment the loan you
! lare freeing your house.
:: You may pay for years and will
:|home But how you Here your opporunbut
the loan can be secured you are sober and
get sick of work. there no loan in Delaware that will
mot wait year for you; landlord will not
II To those desirnga house containing to rooms hot and
cod water and BATH side yard front yard and should buy
la lot 2 80 take shares building association
That loans SAoo on each share build Sroomed
described for from $1,000 $1,000 complete such
eralvou would pay SIS per month for in the city.
older the shares the easier will be to secure oa as
secury the loan you give them mortgage property also
-|asson shares not the oan The result
keep you up will be amount paid each MONTH S2 paid IN
twelve years. S7S which you get in return the OF the
house for years per month"; S72S release of mortgage
house $1,000 value shares at $500 share $780,
Total S4oS AS you keeping your loan you can
: Iget the use of the house and $1,000 besides.
plain facts which you verify by asking some
Irresponsible building loan officer.
TERMS-SIo cash each lot as knocked OFT and
ss Der month until paid for per off for cash.
Hacks will leave Sixth and Market streets at o'clock
II THOMAS M. OGLE,
PETER J. FORD.
L. W. Stidham & Son. Auconeers
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
aA1V HUMOR9
AND ALL SKIN AUD SCALP DIS
EASES SPEEDILY CURED
<.utuuuasnIn

Our little son will be four yesrs Of age on
tho 2Sth inst. In Msy, 1885. he was attacked
Win 8 very painful breaking out Of the ssih
We called In q physician VITO treaties him
tor about four weeks Tho child receiyed
iittle or no good from the treatment, ss the
breaking cut, supposed BY the physician 70
be hives in an aggravated form, Doeame
In -gcr ip blotches, and more and more dF
tressing. wo wers frequently ooligeo iog u
IN in tho night and rub him with soda in
Wa.er, strong llniments, etc. Finally. va
s,ilcd oIherpby oisrs, until 30 less thar
sjx had sttem pied to cure him, 81 Ialtk.
failing, and the CHILD steadily guttir 4 wors,
and wcrSe, Until about the 10th OF Ast in y
whom we bogas to give him Cutie ara Rssoi
vent internally, and the Cuticur' . and Outi
eura Soap extornally, and By tb 4 IIst of Au
gust be was so nearly vel! that We gave hin
oonIy enc doso Of tho keselvep & sDout ever,
soc ond day for about teo o. .ys longer, ant
ho has never bsen troubled since with tn
horrible maiody. In all No used less thai
oSs-h half Of bottle Of Ou' .icura Hesolvsnt.
little less than enc box IF Outicu' q, and onl.
ese cake Of Ou;ioura oap. II. 4. Ky AN.
l OAyuga, Livingston 90, Ill.
l (Subscribed and swo m 70 before me thii
fourth DAY Of January, 1887.
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

Uuticura, the great skin cure, and Outi
oura Soap prepared from II. externally, and
utioura Resolvsnt, the new blood purifier,
internally, are positive cure for every Iofm N
OF skin and bloodi disease nom pimples 70
scr o mla. Sold everywhere.
Price: Cuticura, 20 cents; Outicura Soap
Is cents; Uutioura Res0lvent, $40. Pre-.
pared BY Potter Drug and Chemical 40
boston, Mass. Send for show 10 euro ski
Diseases"
nTMPLrs, Blaokhsads, Skin Blemishes
Tim and Baby huuors, use Cuttour;
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
PIERCE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS
Record Building. 9l7. .919 Chestnut
Street, Philad elphia, Pc.
Thomas May Pierce, n. A.,
Principal and Founder. Morning, After
noon apd Night Sessions.

Pfincipal ana bounder. moInlns' 0A'oh
noon apd Night Sessions.
La1ies and gentlemen 4 are Instructed IN
tee hnical knowledge quslifying them for
the trsnsaoticn Of business and tho proper
management of business af ARA.
Business mon, merchants and farmers
who have had doubts as to whether praoti.
cal business eduostion could be obtained
outside Of the counting room have been sur
prtsed at the thoroughly practical manner
Ia which their sons and daughters nave
boeu qualified for business engagements Al
Pierce college. and are now among its
warmest friends.
Ten Hundred and Fifty (lo5o) Students
Osil or write for Oireulsr and Commence.
ment procesdinzs, containing addresses q
Governors Beaver and BiRgs, and Rev. Sam
W, Smal, and Kev. Sam. r. Jones.
REV. JOHN THOMPSON, Dean.
Offices, Rooms and Q. Second Floor.
al8-eod&w-fm
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

When baby WAS sick, we gave her Castcria,
When she was Child, she cried for Castoria
Vines she became Miss, she clung to Castoria
v hen she had Children, she gave them Cae
orta.
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
s<ROFULOUS HUMORS.

Last spring / WAS very sick, being covered
with some Kind Of scrofula. The doctors
could not help me. WAS advised 70 try the
Outicura kotolvent. i did 20. and in day
grew bettor and botter. until am as well
as ever, thank you for IL very mucn, and
would ike to have II told to tho public.
EDW. HOFMANH,
North AttiobOro, Mass.
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24
SELECT SCHOOL

MRS. nj. HEATH will open, September
18th, o sslec. school, at her residence, on
Union street, Second door below Delaware
avenue. Common and advanced branches
taught. Alse ornamental branches.
al1lu.eods
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

ENE0O lte causes, snd new ano
HHhfNEOO suecesstulGUnE at you
\ 5Own home by one who was dea! tWents
eight years. Treated By most OF the nc
TED specialists without beneht. Ourea L,,%
a reds OF othors. Full particulars sent on ap
niicatlorl, T. s. PAGE, No. Il West sis
MeV YORK Ctty. oetl6.tu, Il, ,sa'ems
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

{-NUsr BE SOLD, TWO 2.
III bsasss; no REASONABLE. . offer
to EVANS PENNlN9rON,
vhth street. "o'Im
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

AND SMALL
lawn wagons at fair prices.
',"n % n, bust ness wagons. W.
ani and French SITS. alo-Sm'
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

=, DESIRABLE M AnU-
busiress in Wilminston,
s,.,sd Satisfactory reasons
Eddress RIM, thfs otace; O..
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

EapROpERrY CENTRAL
! nay,n, over 1a por cent IN
Iorpor pe, store in good location
IycSanye. ,Iv, Apply to J.; J.
ID W. Tth ST. o
Daily Republican., 1887-08-24

teSTOEY yRlOk HOUSE
slds Of Lowering avenue,
.,,so. slr win sell chcap,ano
anrcnaser. s,rc Monthly insta IL
~ II; Lindon street. Apply
Eis,yRNtIa. ~ this ofnoe. ilb'u
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-21
The Panama Canal.

The San Francisco Alta of the 4th inst. has
the following interesting intelligence from
the Panama canal, derived from parties con-
nected with the Panama railroad.
work upon the big undertaking is pro-
crossing very slowly. They attribute the
hardness to lack of laborers and incompe-
tent contractors. There are from 20, 600 to 25,-
600 men at work, and agents have recently
been sent to China to enlist more men for the
work. The first dredger is sixteen miles in.
land from Aspinwall on the Atlantic, but
the channel will have to be widened to twice
its present capacity. Ground is broken
from ocean to ocean, and men are working al
intervals along the entire survey. The heavss
lest and only cut of moment is at Guleba,
which is about eleven miles in extent and
when finished Will be 367 feet below the sur
face. This cut begins nine and one-hali
miles from Panama and is about one-QuarteI
finished. Machinery which cost millions OF
dollars is scattered all around, and no use
can be found for it and it is allowed to rust
All the large and paying contracts are given
to frenchmen, who are an easy-going ut of
people who have not that push that is char
acteristic with Americans. They take mat
tiers philosophically, allowing subordinates
to control the work. These officials have
strict injunctions not to over-exert themselves
In the army OF laborers nearly every nation.
atty is represented, and strange to say, the
Frenchmen fare the worst of any. Not
through treatment, for all are treated alike,
but the climate does not agree with them
and few live more than six weeks after ar
irving But still they come, every steamer
bringing a number. The Panama railway
is the only road in the world which runs
special funeral trains. 1t runs two daily
trains from Aspinwall to the burying ground
at Monkey Hill, a distance of two miles, and
often in the rainy season ten trains are run
out in one day. When the rainy season set:
in in April every known fever spreads and
the laborers die off like soldiers before
Calling gun. The East Indians, South Afri-
cans ana Chinese stand the work and the
climate the best, and few of them die"
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-21
A cautlonary Circular.

Insurance Commissioner Tarbox, of Mas
sachusetts, has issued the following circular:
The attention of the department is called
to reported transactions of an association
styled the Order of the Iron hall, incorpora-
ted, as it claims. under tie laws Of Indiana,
which proposes to do a species of health and
accident insurance, and also to pay specific
endowment Dement'S to its members. This
association has and can have under existing
laws, no lawful authority to transact such
business in Massachusetts. OF similar
character, and under similar disability, ap-
pears to be Ian association which publishes
itself by the title of the Order of Tonti, pur-
porting to be q corporation under the laws of
me state 81 Pennsylvania. The statement
IS made Tor the Information and caution of
the public. 1t may be there are other like
associations, of which the department has
no knowledge, seeking the confidence and
patronage OF the people. AS respects the
several fraternal orders and kindred associa-
tons organized under the laws Chapter 115
OF the Public Statutes) and providing in their
plans for the payment of death and sick ben
efts to members and their families, the com
missioner desire to advise the public that,
whatever the merits of these associations
may be (and that some of them have great
merit In his private opinion), yet they are
not subject to the insurance laws, nor are
their transactions under the supervision of
the insurance department. Whoever unites
with these associations should do SO upon
his own information and judgment, and not
upon any supposed approval of their meth
DDS or supervision of their affairs by the
commonwealth or its official authorities
Ihls VIII serve as the only reply the commits
sloner Is able to. make to requests for infor-
nation and advice as to the merits and relia-
bility of these societies for purposes of
health and life insurance.-Boston Herald,
Feb IL, '87.
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-21

which had belonged to him could be found
on the fatal field. About two years ago
nearly decade after the butchery the wife
declared that she had received q message
telling her that her husband was not dead,
and she resolved to set out in search of him.
She never explained her reasons for heliey.
ing him alive, but she could not be dissuad-
ed from her purpose. Finally she set ont.
some Of her relatives going with her While
passing through the Indian Territory she
one day disappeared as suddenly and absn-
lutely as II the ground had opened and swal-
lowed her. From thatd day to this no trace of
her has been discovered. Whether she wan.
dered away in fit ofmental ALTERATION in
dueed by her grief or deliberately separated
from her party, cannot be determined. All
mat Is known is that she vanished without
warning, and that her fate is an enigma.
Another romance originating in the Custer
assacre is identified with the gold watch
worn by Lieut.. Crittenden, who also per-
lshed by the yengeful bullets or knives of
Sitting Bulls people The watch was a
present which his father Gen. -Crittenden
had purchased in England some time before
1t became the booty of a Sioux warrior who
in due season, after crossing the line, sold it
to Canadian rancher or farmer. The pur-
chaser, suspecting that there must be some
history connected with it, wrote to thu maxi
er in England, describing the watch and
stating its number. The maker wrote back
That the watch had been originally sold to
Gen. Crittenden of the United States army.
Thereupon the Canadian communicated with
the general, who promptly re-purchased the
watch, and it now hangs in his bedroom in
TINS city, a sad memorial of the fate that be-
fell his brave bow
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-21
TRIBES OF LITTLE FOLKS.
The Three Most Notable communI-
ties of Dwarfs in Africa.
[From the New York snn J

/ lNAoti thO 4tCn 1Olh Ouu
A while ago Mr.. Grenfell of the Congo mis-
! sions encountered on the Bosari River, south
of the Congo, the Batwa dwarfs whom Stan.
ley mentions in "The Dark Continent"
though Stanley did not see them. Grenfell
says these little people exist over large ex-
tent of country, their villages being scattered
here and there among other tribes. Wiss.
mann and Poggee also met them few years
ago in their journey to Nyangwe.
It was long supposed that the story of He
rod0tuS about the pigmies of Africa was
mythical, but within the past 20 years abund-
antevidence has accumulated of the existence
OF number OF tribes of curious little folks
tribes are the Aka, whom Schweinfurth
found northwest OF Albert Nyassa: the Obon-
go, discovered by Du Chaillu in west Africa.
southeast OF Gaboon, and the Batwa south of
Congo.
These little people range in height from
Ieet inches TO about feet s inches They
are intellectually as we'll as physically infer
lor 70 the otner tribes of Africa. They are
perhaps nearer the brute kingdom than any
o otaea human imam beings; The Obongo, for in
no nuts except to bend over and fasten to the
ground the tops OF three or four young trees
which they cover with leaves possess no
arts except the making of bows and arrows
anu w NV VII thr oUll. lHty i've on the
smaller game of the forest and on nuts and
berries. They regard the leopard, which
now and then makes meal of one Of them.
as their deadliest enemy. They live only a
few days or weeks in the same place. bury
ing themselves in some other part of the in
terminable woods as soon as the nuts and
other food supplies near their camp begin to
grow scarce.
When Schweinfurth first met the Aka
dwarfs he found himself surrounded by
what he supposed was crowd Of impudent
boys There were several hundred of them,
and he soon found that they were veritable
dwarfs, and their tribe probably numbered
several thousands souls. One of these
dwarfs was taken to Italy few years ago.
was taught to read, and excited much in
interest among scientific men. There are
other tribes of dwarfs in Abyssinia and also
in Somalland.
1t is believed that all these people, includ-
ing the Bushmen of South Africa. are the
remains of an aboriginal population that is
now becoming extinct In the migrations
and subJugati0ns that have been in progress
for several centuries among powerful tribes.
the dwarf tribe of Africa has been Scattered
ana It's Isolated fragments are still found in
widely separated parts Of the rnrttf,rnY,t
The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1887-02-21
A RicYcLisT's PLAN.
How to Ride Wheel All Winter TO,
Condition.

A novel plan for keeping bicycle riderin
condition for the next seasons riding has
been.put in practice by Mr.. E. Y. Judd of
the Connecticut club, who was one of the
hrst Hartford riders to make century, ride.
Ihere are home trainers in plenty and thew
furnish exercise approximately like that on n
regular bicycle, but Mr.. Judd has devised
a simple way of using the bicycle itself
Upon the floor are placed two stout oak
planks set on edge and bottled so as to stand
about six inches apart Between the blanks
are two small wooden rollers grooved to fit
the tire of bicycle and about 80 inches apart
fore and aft. At the back of the frame an
oak standard follows the backbone of the
bicycle and holds the machine upright. The
little wheel is pinned down. When the RI
der mounts his wheel for exercise he pedals
as If riding on the road, but as the big wheel
rests on rollers and the back wheel is fast the
result Is just what is desired-a reproduction
OF work on the road. The weight of the BIZ
cycle and the man upon it makes the wheel
turn about as it would on a level road, but 1t
can pc very readily changed to make Sthe
work like that of hill-climbing. Mr.. Judd
mas no patent on this device but is willing to
nave 1t copied by bicyclists who wish to keep
N condition this winter. Its very cheap
pose perfectly -